ETF comparison
VCRB vs VUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
Holdings overlap
227 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VCRB and VUSB would leave roughly 3.9% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.10% vs 0.10%).
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Top shared holdings
227 shared in total| # | Holding | In VCRB | In VUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NVIDIA Corp | 0.97% | 0.23% | 0.23% |
| 2 | Eskom Holdings | 0.24% | 0.18% | 0.18% |
| 3 | Mexico Government International Bond | 0.16% | 0.16% | 0.16% |
| 4 | Oman Government International Bond | 0.21% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 5 | Suci Second Investment Co | 0.14% | 0.15% | 0.14% |
| 6 | Citigroup Inc | 0.16% | 0.14% | 0.14% |
| 7 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co | 0.10% | 0.11% | 0.10% |
| 8 | Oman Government International Bond | 0.10% | 0.11% | 0.10% |
| 9 | Corp Nacional del Cobre de Chile | 0.12% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 10 | Dominican Republic International Bond | 0.12% | 0.08% | 0.08% |
| 11 | Connecticut Avenue Securities Trust 2026-R02 | 0.06% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 12 | Huntington National Bank/The | 0.05% | 0.17% | 0.05% |
Only in VCRB
3,187 total- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 2.33%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 1.02%
- NVIDIA Corp 0.75%
- Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac 0.68%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.65%
- Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau 0.60%
- Fannie Mae REMICS 0.59%
- OBX 2026-INV2 Trust 0.57%
- Ginnie Mae II Pool 0.56%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.55%
Only in VUSB
1,054 total- United States Treasury Bill 4.19%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.67%
- PNC Financial Services Group Inc/The 0.58%
- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.52%
- Regions Bank/Birmingham AL 0.51%
- US Bancorp 0.50%
- Charles Schwab Corp/The 0.49%
- Truist Bank 0.44%
- Westlake Flooring Master Trust 0.44%
- DLLAD 2024-1 LLC 0.43%
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- VUSB vs EAGG · iShares ESG U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 1.8%
- VUSB vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 1.8%
- VUSB vs BND · Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares 1.8%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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